Hiromi Ishizawa

Background

After graduating from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Professor Ishizawa spent two years as a post-doctoral research associate at the Minnesota Population Center (MPC) at the University of Minnesota. Her research interests are in the areas of social and family demography, immigration, sociology of language, and urban sociology. Her research focuses on the understanding of how immigrants integrate into American society. In particular, her work emphasizes the influence of context, such as family and neighborhood, on the process of integration. She has published work that examines many aspects of immigrant integration, including minority language maintenance, civic participation, health, sequence of migration within family units, intermarriage, and residential settlement patterns among minority language speakers. In addition, she conducts research on another immigrant destination country, New Zealand. Her recent publications specifically focus on residential segregation and patterns of ethnic neighborhoods among recent immigrant groups and the indigenous Maori population.

Current Research

Minority Language Maintenance: Does the Gender of Parents Matter?

Changing Patterns of International Adoption

Neighborhood Change: The Role of Immigration

Built Environment and Immigrant Health

The Role of Social Capital in Explaining Social Trust and Volunteerism in Japan and South Korea

2015. Stevens Gillian, Hiromi Ishizawa, and Douglas Grbic. “Measuring Race and Ethnicity in the Censuses of Australia, Canada and the Unites States: Parallels and Paradoxes.” Canadian Studies in Population 42(1-2): 13-24.

2012. Stevens, Gillian, Hiromi Ishizawa, and Xavier Escandell. “Marrying into the American Population: Cross-Nativity Marriages in the United States.” International Migration Review 46(3): 739-758.

2012. Kubrin, Charis and Hiromi Ishizawa. “Why Some Immigrant Neighborhoods are Safer than Others: Divergent Findings from Los Angeles and Chicago.” The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 641(1): 148-173.

2012. Stevens, Gillian and Hiromi Ishizawa. “Migration and the Measuring of Time.” In The Routledge International Handbook of Migration Studies, edited by Steven J. Gold and Stephanie J. Nawyn. London and New York: Routledge.